Snapdragon's update

Snapdragon ended up having surgery last Monday, and staying over night at the vet.

Mom was a bit upset when she got the email from the rescue saying the vet decided against repairing her jaw, deciding to remove the broken piece instead. How was she going to look?

Mom imagined the worst, her entire lower jaw missing...her tongue always hanging out, but the rescue assured her Snapdragon was going to be able to eat and drink without a problem.

Did the vet make this decision because it was cheaper to remove the jaw than repair it? Would the decision been different if Snapdragon had been owned by a family instead of being a rescue? It was a very upsetting day.

As we drove to pick Snapdragon up Tuesday evening, Mom tried to prepare herself for the worst. She was such a sweet dog, it wouldn't matter what she looked like, right?

Much to Mom's pleasure and surprise, Snappy looked amazing! We could hardly tell anything was wrong with her. The vet ended up just removing the broken piece, which was basically her right lower canine and one or two teeth next to it. Phew!! We were so happy for Snappy!!

She'll be with us for another few weeks, first her jaw has to heal and then she'll need to be spayed. There are already several applications for her though, so we are sure she's gonna find a wonderful family!

Snapdragon!

Even though we weren't quite ready for a new foster, this girl just kind of fell into our laps...almost literally!!

Our most favoritest neighbor across the street also fosters for Second Chance Dog Rescue, and someone in the neighborhood must have known it because last Friday she walked out her front door to find two scared pups in her yard. They were skin and bones and one of them (the black little girl) had a horribly broken jaw.

Male

Female with broken jaw

these two were very bonded!

She was on her way out and didn't have anywhere to keep the pups, so she took them to the nearest animal shelter and was going to put a HOLD on them so nothing bad would happen to them and the rescue could get them later. Unfortunately, the animal shelter said they would immediately put the little girl to sleep because she was in 'inhumane' pain due to her broken jaw. Well, my bestest neighbor would have none of that, so she worked her magic with the rescue and got the little girl into the vet for an exam.

X-rays were taken, pain meds & antibiotics were given, and then Mom got a call asking if she could take the girl in. Of course Mom couldn't say No!

So, the little girl became Snapdragon and our official foster. She got a bath and some food, and when Mom was checking out her jaw she noticed her teeth. They weren't puppy teeth at all! This girl was actually about 9 or 10 months old and not a puppy after-all!

She was terrified of everything that first day. Me included!I tried to tell her I was a nice boy, and Mom kept saying she was so proud of me cuz I just backed off and ignored her once I knew she was scared of me.

After about an hour she started relaxing a bit. She was still terrified of the kitTONS, but who wouldn't be? Especially Fergie...she is never very nice to our new fosters.

She loosened up even more over the weekend and seemed to not even notice her broken jaw. She even tried chewing on one of my bones, but that creeped Mom out so she quickly took it away from her.

Monday morning she had to go back to the vet and possibly have surgery to repair her jaw. We'll tell you more about that in another post!

Breakin the law!

Wow! Its been a long time since I posted anything! So sorry I've been incognito, but its really not my fault...its Moms.

She went on this vacation a couple of weeks back, and was gone for a whole 3 weeks! She went somewhere very far away and had to take 2 planes to get there. She said the places were called Spain and Portugal, and when she came back all she brought me was a dumb bandana. I'm sure she'll post some pictures from her trip, lets just hope she doesn't post all of them! She took over 30G of pictures while she was there!!

So,enough about that, I'm sure you want to hear about my law breaking adventure!

There's a building here in Sandy Eggo called The Salk Institute of Biological Sciences. Basically, its a fancy schmancy building known for its architecture and the folks who work on it get to study all kinds of sciency things.

Mom's been wanting to take me up there for a while now to get some pictures, so on Sunday we headed up there with a few friends....not knowing exactly what we'd find.

When we got there we discovered the building itself was close!! Luckily, there was a cool fountain/waterfall feature at the back of the building that we could take pictures on.

Our Mom's made us sit and stay while my Mom took pictures. We were all pretty good, including Gigi...the youngest of the group who had was celebrating her 1 year old birthday on Sunday!!

Mirabella, the Kerry Blue Terrier, was the best stayer of the group. Gigi kept breaking her stay, and as soon as she moved so would Ginger & I. Mira stayed still the entire time!

There was also a block wall overlooking the ocean, so of course we had to sit there too. It was a hot day in Sandy Eggo, so my tongue is huge!

Then we found this big grassy area! Of course, Mom made us take some pictures there too. By this time, Gigi was tired of staying so just us more 'mature' dogs had to do a stand stay.

Then Mom took some pictures of Gigi in her show dog pose. She's already gotten a number of points towards her championship and 'strikes a pose' quite nicely.

Ginger hung out and enjoyed the sun.

After the photos we got some free time to do some running! Gigi kept chasing me all over, I think she had a crush!

While we were running around having fun, one of the scientists who works at Salk walked by and watched us play. Mom said "hi" to him and asked about going into the building. He said it was closed on the weekend, but if we wanted he would let us in. Heck ya!!

He used his security badge to let us in and said 'goodbye...if someone asks, I didn't let you in, ok?" :)

We were able to get a few photos overlooking the ocean, but the lighting was tough since it was getting close to sunset.

Mom then decides to make us all straddle the concrete stream running down the middle of the courtyard. She posed us and started snapping pictures. She was able to get a number of photos, and when she released us to check them out on her camera, she noticed a security guard had come up behind her. BUSTED!!

He told us the institute was close and that no dogs were allowed, and then asked us how we got in. Mom made up a story (aka. LIED!) and said one of the side doors wasn't latched. heehee! We didn't want our scientist friend to get in trouble!

Luckily the security guard was super nice and just escorted us out. Mom ended up getting this picture, but the lighting was horrible so she played a little bit in "BeFunky" and this was the end result.

Wordless Wednesday

why yes, I am comfortable...thanks for asking!

As pretty as a Poppy!

This little gal came to stay with us last night. Its been 3 weeks since Cassie moved on to find her forever home, and Mom's been keepin her eye out for another girl that would fit into our household.

Since the house isn't big, we can't take on too big of a dog. Plus, I've gotten to be kind of a butthead with certain big dogs. Typically boys more so than girls, but I'm always a gentlemen with the little ladies so that's the 'profile' Mom typically looks for.

In addition, they need to get along with kitTONs. That's not always easy to tell since these are all dogs that are being pulled from high kill shelters where they have no exposure to kitTONs, but for some reason Mom can usually tell from their eyes. She looks for a dog with 'soft' eyes, no intense looks. So far that seems to be working pretty well!

Poppy is ~8 months old and is already spayed, microchipped & fully vaccinated. At first, she wasn't sure what the small fluffy things were, but she quickly got accustomed to them and learned they were pretty much "OK". Even Fergie kitTON seemed to like her!!

She'll be staying with us til she gets adopted, but Mom doesn't think that will take long. Just look at that face!

She's kinda filthy, so she'll be getting a bath tomorrow and we'll find out what her true colors are. She looks like she's kind of beige, with a few apricot spots. It will be fun to see what happens when the grime comes off!

Welcome Poppy!!

Never Forget

Sandy Eggo Sunset

The sky had lots of clouds...just the kind that make for a beautiful sunset, so Mom loaded me in the car and we headed to a park which she knew had a great view of the skyline.

Too many people there & too many off leash dogs, so after a quick change of plans we changed direction and headed toward the ocean.

Mom put the pedal to the metal cuz the sun was not gonna wait for us to set. The sky kept getting prettier and prettier...but we weren't there yet!! Finally, pulled into a spot in the bay, flew out of the car & started snappin shots.

She wanted me to tell you, these are all straight out of the camera...no editing other than some cropping.

look what was in the rocks just about 10 feet away from us!! There's a whole colony of feral cats that live in the rocks on the jetty. 80 or 90 was the last count Mom heard. This one looks a lot like Fergie kitTON and was curious about what we were doing so he(she?) came closer to see what was going on.

She was camouflaged really well by the rocks and at first I didn't even notice her....but I could smell her!!

Mom was super proud of me though, cuz even though I knew she was there somewhere, I 'stayed' the entire time she told me to.

In this shot, she's just in front of me...about 5 feet away. She'd tucked herself into some of the crevices and I still couldn't see her.

Boy, are we lucky to live in such a beautiful place! The only thing that woulda made it better was a dip in that nice ocean!